Re: web to semantic web : an automated approach

any thoughts on this...


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:38 AM, ravinder thakur
<ravinderthakur@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello friends,
>
> I have been following semantic web for some time now and have seen quite a
> lot of projects being run (dbpedia, FOAF etc) trying to generate some
> semantic content. While these approaches might have been successful in their
> goals, one major problem plaguing semantic web as a whole is the lack of
> semantic content. Unfortunately there is nothing in sight that we can rely
> on to generate semantic content for the truckloads of information being put
> on web everyday. I think one of the _wrong_ assumption in semantic web
> community is that content creators will be creating a semantic data which I
> think is too much for the asking from even more technically sound part of
> web community let along whole of the web community. It hasn't happened over
> last so many years and I don't see it happening in the near future.
>
> I think what we need to move the semantic web forward is a mechanism to
> _automatcially_ convert the information over the web to semantic
> information. There are many softwares/services that can be used for this
> purpose. I am currently developing one prototype for this purpose. This
> prototype uses services from OpenCalais(http://www.opencalais.com/) to
> convert ordinary text to semantic form. This service is very limited in what
> entities supports at the moment but its a very good start. I am pretty sure
> there will be many other good options available that might be unknown to me.
> The currently very primitive prototype can be seen at
> http://arcse.appspot.com. This currently implements very few of the ideas
> I have for this. This is hosted on Google's AppEngine so sometime gives
> timeout messages internally so please bear with this :).
>
> This automatic conversion however is not a simple task and needs work in
> lot in domains ranging form NLP to artificial intelligence to semantic web
> to logic etc. So thats why this mail. I will be more than happy if we can
> join together to form a like minded team that can work on solving this most
> important problem plaguing semantic web currently.
>
> Waiting for your suggestions/criticisms
> Ravinder Thakur
>
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